18 Years Old Chinese New Year Gift Pack 2025

William Grant broke ground on Glenfiddich in 1886 using secondhand stills and family labour, running first spirit on Christmas Day 1887 — a founding act of stubborn self-sufficiency that persists today: Glenfiddich remains one of very few Speyside distilleries to distil, mature, and bottle entirely on a single site in Dufftown.

The 18 Year Old is the expression where that patience becomes most legible. Water drawn exclusively from the Robbie Dhu Spring — a mineral-rich highland source in the Conval Hills, whose catchment the Grant family protected by acquiring the surrounding land — feeds both fermentation and reduction to bottling strength, threading a consistent mineral signature through every stage.

The Glen of the River Fiddich's stable valley microclimate and stone-walled dunnage warehouses with earthen floors slow the interaction between spirit and wood, allowing the 18–20% ex-Oloroso sherry European oak component to integrate gradually alongside the dominant ex-bourbon American white oak casks over a minimum of 18 years.

Before bottling, all constituent casks are married in large oak tuns — a mandatory house step that rounds the seams between bourbon-driven orchard fruit and sherry-derived dried-fruit depth. What distinguishes the 18 YO within the core range is precisely this

sherry proportion: meaningfully higher than the 12 YO's approximate 15%, yet the distillery's characteristically small, swan-neck pot stills preserve the light, high-reflux new make that prevents the sherry from dominating.

The 2025 Chinese New Year gift pack presents this age statement in commemorative packaging without altering the liquid.